Parent class: VirWare
Viruses and worms are malicious programs that self-replicate on computers or via computer networks without the user being aware; each subsequent copy of such malicious programs is also able to self-replicate. Malicious programs which spread via networks or infect remote machines when commanded to do so by the “owner” (e.g. Backdoors) or programs that create multiple copies that are unable to self-replicate are not part of the Viruses and Worms subclass. The main characteristic used to determine whether or not a program is classified as a separate behaviour within the Viruses and Worms subclass is how the program propagates (i.e. how the malicious program spreads copies of itself via local or network resources.) Most known worms are spread as files sent as email attachments, via a link to a web or FTP resource, via a link sent in an ICQ or IRC message, via P2P file sharing networks etc. Some worms spread as network packets; these directly penetrate the computer memory, and the worm code is then activated. Worms use the following techniques to penetrate remote computers and launch copies of themselves: social engineering (for example, an email message suggesting the user opens an attached file), exploiting network configuration errors (such as copying to a fully accessible disk), and exploiting loopholes in operating system and application security. Viruses can be divided in accordance with the method used to infect a computer:- file viruses
- boot sector viruses
- macro viruses
- script viruses
Class: Virus
Viruses replicate on the resources of the local machine. Unlike worms, viruses do not use network services to propagate or penetrate other computers. A copy of a virus will reach remote computers only if the infected object is, for some reason unrelated to the virus function, activated on another computer. For example: when infecting accessible disks, a virus penetrates a file located on a network resource a virus copies itself to a removable storage device or infects a file on a removable device a user sends an email with an infected attachment.Read more
Platform: Linux
Linux is a family of UNIX-influenced operating systems based on the Linux kernel and GNU tools.Description
Technical Details
It is not a dangerous, memory resident parasitic virus. It was written in the assembler language. It uses system calls (syscall) while working with files. The virus infects ELF files. It writes itself to the middle of the file.
After starts the virus divides a main process and continues its work. The resident part scans the directories from the root. The virus checks the access right for each found file. If file has a write access the virus will infect it. While infecting file the virus increases its code section size on 4096 bytes and writes its code to the free space. After that the virus changes parameters for the ELF file upper sections and setups a new Entry point for it. The virus displays the message on each start:
Gildo virus
email Gildo@jazz.hm (for comments)
The virus contains the text strings:
hello, nice boys, I hope you will enjoy this program written with nasm. I want to say thanks to all my programmers friend.Bye from Gildo. The Netwide Assembler 0.98 .symtab .strtab .shstrtab .text .data .sbss .bss .comment
It also contains the debug strings from the compiler:
virus.asm parent parent_process ahah scan_dir c_stat others_permissions user_permissions group_permissions c_permissions is_regular_file c1_is_regular_file c2_is_regular_file is_directory c1_is_directory l_readdir skip_l_readdir e_l_readdir error_stat error_opening_file e_scan_dir infect_file open no_open_error file_length mmap c_mmap is_suitable error_suitable c1_is_suitable read_ehdr c_ehdr is_suitable_space patch_ehdr patch_e_entry patch_e_sh_offset patch_phdrs l_read_ph dont_patch_phtext dont_patch_ph patch_shdrs l_read_sh dont_patch_shtext dont_patch_sh find_current_entry_point write suit_error munmap mmap_error close open_error __exit __bss_start main _edata _end
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